Artists

HARRY MOORE

AMERICAN, 1844–1926

Born deaf in New York City, Harry Moore was a student of Thomas Eakins when attending a school for the deaf in Philadelphia. Eakins recommended he study at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he became a student of Jean Leon Gerome.

Completing his studies in 1869, Moore traveled in Spain with Eakins, and he was so impressed by the landscape that he stayed several years. In 1872, he married and moved to Morocco and also went to Japan, having been encouraged by the artist Robert Blum.

His reputation was established by his interest in Oriental subject matter—- he along with William Heine, Edward Kern, and Winckworth Gay,was one of the first American artists to visit Japan. There he created about sixty paintings of Oriental subject matter including temples, gardens, and Geisha girls.

He studied art in Paris and in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute. He was in and out of San Francisco often between 1864-1907. A world traveler, he specialized in Spanish, Japanese, and Moorish subjects. Moore worked in Europe most of the latter part of his life and died in Paris on Jan. 2, 1926. Member: Rochester AA. Exh: Mechanics’ Inst. (SF), 1871, 1878, 1881; Snow & Mays Gallery (SF), 1877 (solo); Bohemian Club, 1880; Mark Hopkins Inst., 1900-03. In: CHS; Bohemian Club; Carnegie Inst.

Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940”
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